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A Future In The Past (2024)

Theodore Parker
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A Future In the Past is a research project engaging with the application of methods from Historically Informed Performance and Media Archeology towards problems found in the practice of Live Electronic music. In doing so the project sought to expose lost discourses in the medium as viewed from the performer’s perspective. Three pieces by composer Udo Kasemets were chosen as case studies. All compositions were originally written and performed prior to the 1990’s boom in digital processing. Each case study explores themes related to Liveness, Audience Interaction, and Hyper Instruments. In developing the historical context for each work several strategies were undertaken. Kasemets’ archives were reviewed at the University of Toronto, performers of the original pieces were interviewed, and investigations into period specific instruments were conducted. Additionally, Kasemets’ own published writings were used to reference his aesthetic ambitions as well as for comparison with his contemporaries. Rehearsals were carried out with The Estonian Electronic Music Ensemble, where the historical data and performer experiences were combined to create an individual interpretation for each composition. These interpretations were then presented to an audience and alongside contemporary issues currently debated in Live Electronics
typeresearch exposition
keywordsLive-electronics, historically informed performance, media archeology
date30/12/2023
published04/03/2024
last modified04/03/2024
statuspublished
copyrightTheodore Parker
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2463942/2463943
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.2463942
published inResearch Catalogue


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